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The  Passing  Strange.    Verse 
Washington  Five  and  Eight  O'Clocks 
The  Struggle  for  the  Adriatic 

Two  Lyrics 

An  Anglo-American  Entente 
Yanishev  Goes  Home  to  the  Village    . 
The  Injustice  of  Zionism 
Mountain  Laurel.    Verse     . 

Dragon's  Blood 

The  English  Actor  of  To-day 

To  E.  T.     Verse 

Edward  Thomas 

Seventeen.     Verse       .        .        .        . 
Einstein's  Theory  of  Gravitation 
Experiences  of  a  Medium     . 
Methusaleh.     Verse     .... 
An  Accidental  Victorian 
The  Moving  Picture     .... 
Among  the  Books 

Edited  by  WILBUR 

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.     John  Masefield 

.     Vernon  Kellogg 

.  Charles  Seymour 

.  John  Drinkwater 

George  McLean  Harper 

.  Albert  Rhys  Williams 

Edward  Bliss  Reed 

Alfred  Noyes 

.     Samuel  Scoville,  Jr. 

A.  B.  Walkley 

Robert  Frost 

George  F.  Whicher 

Robert  Nichols 

.   Leigh  Page 

.      Mathilde  Weil 

Charlton  M.  Lewis 

Wilbur  C  Abbott 

.     Ellis  P.  Oberholtzer 

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The  Passing  Strange.     Verse    . 
Washington  Five  and  Eight  O'Clocks 
The  Struggle  for  the  Adriatic  . 

Two  Lyrics 

An  Anglo-American  Entente    . 

Yanishev  Goes  Home  to  the  Village 

The  Injustice  of  Zionism  . 

Mountain  Laurel.     Verse . 

Dragon's  Blood  .        .        .        .        . 

The  English  Actor  of  To-day  . 

To  E.  T.     Verse 

Edward  Thomas .  . 

Seventeen.     Verse 

Einstein's  Theory  of  Gravitation    . 

Experiences  of  a  Medium  . 

Methusaleh.     Verse   .... 

An  Accidental  Victorian    . 

The  Moving  Picture  .... 


John  Masefield 

Vernon  Kellogg 

.     Charles  Seymour 

.    John  Drinkwater 

George  McLean  Harper 

Albert  Rhys  Williams 

Edward  Bliss  Reed 

Alfred  Noyes 

Samuel  Scoville,  Jr. 

A.  B.  Walkley 

Robert  Frost 

George  F.  Whicher 

Robert  Nichols 

Leigh  Page 

Mathilde  Weil 

Charlton  M.  Lewis 

.    Wilbur  C.  Abbott 

Ellis  P.  Oberholtzer 


AMONG  THE  BOOKS 


The  Full  Circle  of  Masefield's  Art  . 
Dickens  and  Dickensians 
The  Last  of  the  Ichthyosauria 

A  New  World 

Art  and  Heraldry       . 

The  Typical  American  Short  Story 

A  Diagnosis  of  Stage  Diseases . 

Humanism  Militant  . 

Recent  Verse       .        .  . 

A  Preacher  of  Personal  Liberty 


.    John  Drinkwater 

Wilbur  Cross 

William  0.  Stevens 

Harold  J.  Laski 

A.  Kingsley  Porter 

.     James  C.  Alvord 

Archibald  Henderson 

Frederick  A.  Manchester 

Charles  Wharton  Stork 

Louis  Howland 


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Vol.  IX  APRIL,  1920  No.  3 

THE   PASSING   STRANGE 
By  JOHN  MASEFIELD 

Out  of  the  earth  to  rest  or  range 

Perpetual  in  perpetual  change 

The  unknown  passing  through  the  strange. 

Water  and  saltness  held  together 

To  tread  the  dust  and  stand  the  weather 

And  plough  the  field  and  stretch  the  tether. 

To  pass  the  wine  cup  and  be  witty, 
Water  the  sands  and  build  the  city, 
Slaughter  like  devils  and  have  pity, 

Be  red  with  rage  and  pale  with  lust, 

Make  beauty  come,  make  peace,  make  trust, 

Water  and  saltness  mixed  with  dust; 

Drive  over  earth,  swim  under  sea, 

Fly  in  the  eagle's  secrecy, 

Guess  where  the  hidden  comets  be; 

Know  all  the  deathy  seeds  that  still 
Queen  Helen's  beauty,  Caesar's  will, 
And  slay  them  even  as  they  kill, 


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Fashion  an  altar  for  a  rood, 

Defile  a  continent  with  blood, 

And  watch  a  brother  starve  for  food; 

Love  like  a  madman,  shaking,  blind  . 
Till  self  is  burnt  into  a  kind 
Possession  of  another  mind; 

Brood  upon  beauty  till  the  grace 
Of  beauty  with  the  holy  face 
Brings  peace  into  the  bitter  place; 

Probe  in  the  lifeless  granites,  scan 
The  stars  for  hope,  for  guide,  for  plan; 
Live  as  a  woman  or  a  man; 

Fasten  to  lover  or  to  friend 
Until  the  heart-break  at  the  end, 
The  break  of  death  that  cannot  mend; 

Then  to  lie  useless,  helpless,  still 
Down  in  the  earth,  in  dark,  to  fill 
The  roots  of  grass  or  daffodil . 

Down  in  the  earth,  in  dark,  alone, 
A  mockery  of  the  ghost  in  bone, 
The  strangeness  passing  the  unknown. 

Time  will  go  by,  that  outlasts  clocks, 
Dawn  in  the  thorps  will  rouse  the  cocks, 
Sunset  be  glory  on  the  rocks, 

But  it,  the  thing,  will  never  heed 
Even  the  rootling  from  the  seed 
Thrusting  to  suck  it  for  its  need. 


THE  PASSING  STRANGE  451 

Since  moons  decay  and  suns  decline 
How  else  should  end  this  life  of  mine? 
Water  and  saltness  are  not  wine. 

But  in  the  darkest  hour  of  night, 
When  even  the  foxes  peer  for  sight, 
The  byre-cock  crows;  he  feels  the  light. 

So,  in  this  water  mixed  with  dust, 
The  byre-cock  spirit  crows  from  trust 
That  death  will  change  because  it  must, 

For  all  things  change,  the  darkness  changes, 
The  wandering  spirits  change  their  ranges, 
The  corn  is  gathered  to  the  granges. 

The  corn  is  sown  again,  it  grows; 
The  stars  burn  out,  the  darkness  goes. 
The  rhythms  change,  they  do  not  close. 

They  change,  and  we,  who  pass  like  foam, 
Like  dust  blown  through  the  streets  of  Rome, 
Change  ever,  too;  we  have  no  home, 

Only  a  beauty,  only  a  power, 

Sad  in  the  fruit,  bright  in  the  flower, 

Endlessly  erring  for  its  hour 

But  gathering,  as  we  stray,  a  sense 
Of  Life,  so  lovely  and  intense, 
It  lingers  when  we  wander  hence, 

That  those  who  follow  feel  behind 
Their  backs,  when  all  before  is  blind, 
Our  joy,  a  rampart  to  the  mind. 


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